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Lively and colorful, vigorous and buzzing, busy day and night, Pushkin Square is Moscow's Times Square. There is hardly a Muscovite who has never dived into the long underpass, colloquially known as the Pushka, that runs under the square, across Tverskaya Street and down to three main subway lines. So when a bomb went off in the cramped concrete maze last Tuesday at the height of rush hour, it did more than just tear the flesh of the 11 people who died and the 96 who were injured. It also charred the nation's hopes...
Most watched the bus burn from the wall overlooking the underpass...
...million in damages. By Thursday, the living were starting to sound grateful, to find silver linings. In Oklahoma City, seven-year-old Megan Varva was showing off her new outfit, the first of many replacements to come. Scott Pitman remembered a woman who had let go of the underpass she was clinging to to hand off her young son. She was swept away; the son survived. For Bruce Silsby, an owner of a destroyed surplus store, reality is a simple matter of moving forward. "Yesterday was the shock of, 'I've lost everything,'" he said. "Now it doesn't matter...
...least the remainder of this academic year, shuttles will stop at Johnston Gate, then turn right and follow Cambridge Street through the underpass...
...least the remainder of this academic year, shuttles will stop at Johnston Gate, then turn right and follow Cambridge Street through the underpass...